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Abstract
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs) shows great promise in portable medical diagnostic systems and non-contact range finding owing to their miniature size, high acoustic impedance matching with human tissue, low power consumption, and easy integration with ICs. A highly transmitting and receiving PMUTs is developed in this study using Pb(Zr
0.5
Ti
0.5
)O
3
as the piezoelectric layer, which is fabricated through a low-temperature and high-piezoelectricity Pb(Zr
0.5
Ti
0.5
)O
3
thin film fabrication technique. The fabricated piezoelectric film features the lowest film-forming temperature
$\le 480~^{\circ }$
C) ever reported, excellent piezoelectric coefficient (15.5 C/m
2
), and lowe dielectric constant (750). Consequently, the developed PMUTs achieved a transmitting sensitivity of 4.72 kPa/V, −6 dB fractional bandwidth of 80.2 %, and high reception signal-to-noise ratio up to 37.3 and 18.9 dB, with and without any amplifier circuits, respectively. Thus, it demonstrated a higher comprehensive performance than previously reported PMUTs with the similar structure. The results of this study may accelerate the development of CMOS-compatible and high-performance PMUTs based on thin PZT film.
期刊介绍:
IEEE Electron Device Letters publishes original and significant contributions relating to the theory, modeling, design, performance and reliability of electron and ion integrated circuit devices and interconnects, involving insulators, metals, organic materials, micro-plasmas, semiconductors, quantum-effect structures, vacuum devices, and emerging materials with applications in bioelectronics, biomedical electronics, computation, communications, displays, microelectromechanics, imaging, micro-actuators, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, power ICs and micro-sensors.